Jumping Jack – How Samuel Beckett’s favourite actor Jack MacGowran hit the heightsAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 10 2018 - 18:05
Hurrah, Hurrah: Frank McNally on an Irish revival for the composer who brought Johnny home from warAn Irishman’s Diary on Patrick Sarsfield GilmoreTue Oct 09 2018 - 18:20
Bones of contention – Why the remains of James Joyce are still in exileFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 04 2018 - 17:50
Yours Gaelicly – how modern hurling pucked off on the letters page of ‘The Irish Times’An Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 03 2018 - 18:20
I Think, Therefore I Say ‘Amn’t I?’ – Frank McNally on a profound question of Hiberno-EnglishAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Oct 02 2018 - 17:45
Big Tom ‘monumentalised among the people who loved him best’Bronze statue of beloved singer unveiled in Castleblayney at climax of inaugural festivalSun Sept 23 2018 - 21:18
Brothers in arms – the tangled tale of two Dublin siblings during Ireland’s revolutionary yearsFrank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 21 2018 - 18:25
Second Wind – Frank McNally on a weather-delayed world premiereAn Irishman's Diary on a resurfacing victim of the 'Beast from the East'Thu Sept 20 2018 - 18:15
Classic Rock – Frank McNally on tracing the origins of a famous Irish balladAn Irishman’s Diary on the Rocks of BawnWed Sept 19 2018 - 18:07
The Face of War – How a Finglas man may be the answer to a 100-year-old mysteryFrank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryTue Sept 18 2018 - 18:05
That’s All, Volks – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of the Volkswagen BeetleAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 14 2018 - 17:50
Charge of the wheat brigade – A Meath farmer’s memories of the Crimean WarFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryThu Sept 13 2018 - 17:58
Countied out – The contrasting fates of English and Irish county boundariesFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 12 2018 - 17:50
A Brexit for the birds – Frank McNally on what ‘Operation Yellowhammer’ really meansAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 07 2018 - 17:15
Knotty problem – On Japanese knotweed and other unwelcome guests of the Irish countrysideFrank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 05 2018 - 18:22
‘GAA ensures we don’t enjoy life too much by reminding us of our inadequacies’An Irishman’s Diary: We despair about Gaelic football and romanticise hurling. It's a national sportWed Sept 05 2018 - 12:10
Exploring the Border: A frontier marked by myriad crossingsHistory inescapable on sinuous boundary between Monaghan and neighbours in NorthSat Sept 01 2018 - 06:00
Bop till you drop – on Theresa May, Brexit, and the Dancing Plague of 1518An Irishman’s DiaryFri Aug 31 2018 - 18:50
The last throes of summer – Frank McNally ushers in autumn, with no help from BaudelaireAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Aug 30 2018 - 18:01
Moving scenes – Some random reflections on Orwell, Hemingway, and Percy FrenchFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryWed Aug 29 2018 - 18:01
Car-free day – Frank McNally says farewell to a four-wheeled friendAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Aug 28 2018 - 17:50
Papal indulgence – Frank McNally on the social side of the pope’s 1979 visit to GalwayAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Aug 24 2018 - 18:01
Wit’s end – On smartphones, the death of conversation, and Dorothy ParkerFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryThu Aug 23 2018 - 18:00
Hair Here! – James Joyce and the eager beaverers of 1922Frank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryWed Aug 22 2018 - 18:01
Roses and poppies – The real-life characters behind a famous Irish balladFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryTue Aug 21 2018 - 17:45
On the trail of Orwell’s two down-and-out Irish tramps‘Orwell agreed with the dictum: you are what you eat. And he thought poor Paddy had eaten badly, when at all, for too long’Fri Aug 17 2018 - 17:24
How star-crossed lovers died by execution 170 years agoCamila, the Argentinian-born granddaughter of a Co Clare man, eloped with a Jesuit priestThu Aug 16 2018 - 18:00
Finding a crossword maker in the middle of a crosswordAn Irishman’s Diary: ‘Her mother was Delia Murphy, the singer, her father Thomas J Kiernan, one of our first and most distinguished diplomats’Wed Aug 15 2018 - 18:20
One bright, glorious Salthill day banishes Monaghan’s 30 years of hurtFrank McNally on the trials and tribulations –and rare ecstasy – of being a life-long Farney supporterSun Aug 12 2018 - 06:00
Juggling With Turnips review: funny and perfectly constructed storiesKarl MacDermott’s imagination and instinct display wit and wisdom on human conditionSat Aug 11 2018 - 06:00
An old Irish question: Will we all be rooned with the rain or the drought?An Irishman’s Diary: ‘As the poem progresses, the prayed-for deluge arrives, in Biblical quantities, until that too becomes a problem’Fri Aug 10 2018 - 16:15
A sung and unsung Irish language hero of DonegalAn Irishman’s Diary: James Patrick Craig may be largely forgotten, but his songs live onThu Aug 09 2018 - 16:20
A drop of kirsch, a whiff of quiche and a word with General Humbert’s descendantAn Irishman’s Diary on a weekend in LorraineWed Aug 08 2018 - 18:11
Naming and shaming: OutFlanning Flann when it comes to unreliable namesAn Irishman’s Diary about Arthur McBride and Flann O’Brien errorsTue Aug 07 2018 - 17:19
Frank McNally on the hair-raising history of hurlingAn Irishman’s Diary on why Irish bogs sometimes cough up hairballsFri Aug 03 2018 - 18:30
Saints and Spinners: Frank McNally on a magical mystery tour of eastern FranceAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Aug 02 2018 - 17:56
Frank McNally: My sweaty weekend in the French revolutionary armyAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Aug 01 2018 - 18:30
Frank McNally on a Brexit-flavoured ‘Waiting for Godot’Soft Border, Hard Beckett: An Irishman’s DiaryTue Jul 31 2018 - 17:46
Frank McNally: How the cravat became a global fashion classic, with a bit of help from the FrenchCollared by the Croats – An Irishman’s DiaryFri Jul 13 2018 - 18:30
Frank McNally: The great Irish tradition of slandering Kinnegad and other midlands townsFlat but unflattered – An Irishman’s DiaryThu Jul 12 2018 - 17:30
Frank McNally: The service now arriving on Platform 1 is a pianoAn Irishman’s Diary on the music of trainsWed Jul 11 2018 - 17:30
Frank McNally: The story of Ireland’s German internment camp of the first World WarGuests of the Nation – An Irishman’s DiaryTue Jul 10 2018 - 19:01
Frank McNally: how the heatwave has caused a revival of retro hay-makingAn Irishman’s Diary: Square bales in a round holeFri Jul 06 2018 - 18:55
Frank McNally joins a mad scientist in search of the perfect routeA runner’s road to gloryThu Jul 05 2018 - 18:10
Frank McNally visits Carrick-on-ShannonMagaluf of the Midlands or Irish Taj Mahal?Tue Jul 03 2018 - 17:16
Frank McNally: Goodbye to all that – a fond farewell to the primary school runAn Irishman’s Diary: For the past 15 years I got to walk the kids around the Royal Hospital KilmainhamFri Jun 29 2018 - 16:49
Dodging gurrier seagulls on a bombing mission in the melting, moulting heatAn Irishman’s Diary: Birdies, ducks and the outer plumage of the Ouzel Galley SocietyThu Jun 28 2018 - 20:54
Bingeing with Behan – An Irishman’s Diary about the weekend’s debris by a canalBrendan Behan gazes forever at a blackbird singing beside him. But on Monday, he seemed to be surveying the rubbishThu Jun 28 2018 - 01:00
Ducking responsibility – An Irishman’s Diary about a weekend in FermanaghThe ducks were still wild animals, even after weeks of turning up for breakfast, dinner, and tea, with an ever-increasing air of entitlementWed Jun 27 2018 - 01:02
